Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.